[NCLUG] CD burning problems

[Dan Fink]

  I tried using cdrecord from the command line, and got the errors 
below--same ones as when using the gnometoaster frontend.

This is weird though -- when I tried the "record to CD" feature in 
Nautilus (it opens a "burn:///" folder when you insert a blank CD-R) is 
does not give any errors while burning and says it is fixating the disc 
-- but the resulting disc is not mountable, and not playable as an audio 
CD either.

Hmmmmm...
DAN








Blocks total: 335925 Blocks current: 335925 Blocks remaining: 319589
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is OFF.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01:    1 of   36 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 
3.3x.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 02 01 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 71 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 40s

write track data: error after 1206576 bytes
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing  time:   13.700s
Average write speed  30.1x.
Min drive buffer fill was 100%
Fixating...
cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x03 (session fixation error - incomplete track in 
session) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s
cdrecord: Cannot fixate disk.
Fixating time:    0.001s
cdrecord: fifo had 83 puts and 20 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 8 times full, min fill was 87%.


Daniel Miles wrote:
> At the risk of sounding like a hard-ass, I think the first thing to do
> is to test to see if it's your front-end or if it's a deeper problem.
> 
> Here's what I'd do:
> I'd get a CDRW (so I didn't waste a CD just to test this) and I'd get a
> couple of wav files and I'd type (as root):
> # cdrecord --scanbus
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.29
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) 'SONY  ' 'DVD RW DRU-510A ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM
>         0,1,0     1) *
>         0,2,0     2) *
>         0,3,0     3) *
>         0,4,0     4) *
>         0,5,0     5) *
>         0,6,0     6) *
>         0,7,0     7) *
> 
> # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=16 -audio -pad file1.wav ... file(n).wav
> 
> and see if that burns... If it does, switch your front end as has been
> suggested but I wouldn't bother to get another one [front end] until I'd
> tested it from the command line.
>